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Stressing the need of suitable airports for the continued development of commercial aviation and stating that Lake Placid will undoubtedly have a proper airport even earlier than now appears possible, Leighton S. Bowker of Malone outlined the story of aviation past and present at the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Lake Placid on Wednesday.

Mr. Bowker, who is secretary of the newly organized Kiwanis Club of Malone, has had years of experience in aviation.

He was three years with the Canadian field artillery overseas during the Great War and was for a year-and-a-half a lieutenant in the British Royal Air Force. He was engaged in some of the hottest air fighting of the war and was in the British flight squadron when Immelman, the great German ace, was shot down.

He pointed out that states are hastening to pass legislation which will make it possible for villages to bond themselves to build suitable airdromes and landing fields. These are needed for Lake Placid, he stated, and will come possibly soon now seems likely.

He said that $13,000 to $15,000 will erect and equip a first-class daytime landing field, while somewhat more would be needed for a night field. The value to a resort like Lake Placid would be incalculable.

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Toboggan accident

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Daniel Frayne Jr., 11, sustained painful, and it was thought serious, injuries when he was thrown from a toboggan on the municipal slide at 5:45 p.m. Monday at the point where the slide passes across Main Street in front of the firehouse.

Daniel was riding at the time with two Colby boys and one other youngster. The toboggan, it seems, when passing over a low spot or slight dip in the slide, tipped over and was going at such a high rate of speed that it dragged the Frayne boy over the ice for several feet after he became tangled in the rope.

His face was badly cut around the throat and mouth, and he was rushed by his father, who lives nearby in the Prunier Block on Main Street, to the Lake Placid General Hospital, where he was attended by Dr. Owens and Dr. Volpert.

It now appears that the young lad will recover.

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Indoor baseball

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The indoor baseball league, sponsored by the Lake Placid post of the American Legion, got off to a good start Monday night in the high school gym, with the Club defeating the Masons 14 to 12 and the K. of C. downing the Lake Placid firemen 22 to 8.

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New scout troop

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Troop 1 of Lake Placid Boy Scouts has been officially organized. This is the Community Church troop which will be under the direction of Dr. J. R. Campbell, scout master, and Ralph Barr, assistant scout master.

While various troops of Lake Placid Boy Scouts have been active for several weeks, the Community Church troop is the first one to complete its official organization under the newly organized Adirondack Council, comprising Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake, Chateaugay, Malone and Lake Placid.

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Jack Shea skates

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It was all Lake Placid in the Section 3 New York State interscholastic speedskating meet held on the Mirror Lake rink last Saturday afternoon. Local blade stars easily got first place against Plattsburgh and Keeseville.

The three state records were bettered although not officially broken by Jack Shea of Lake Placid; Repas of Plattsburgh; and the Lake Placid mile relay team which includes Jack and Gene Shea and W. Pratt. Gene won the 880-yard race, Jack won the 1 mile, Repas won the 220-yard race, Pratt won the three-quarter mile and Jack won the 440-yard race.

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